Maya Jasanoff, author portrait
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Maya Jasanoff

Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (2005) and Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. Her essays and reviews appear frequently in publications including The New York TimesThe Guardian, and The New York Review of Books.
The Dawn Watch
Liberty's Exiles
Edge of Empire

Books

The Dawn Watch
Liberty's Exiles
Edge of Empire